Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office will be offering a meat canning class from 6-8 pm, Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the extension office, 11475 FM 1442, Orange. Cost is $20 per person (cash or check). The class is limited to 15, so early reservations are strongly encouraged. Those in attendance will learn to can meat, poultry and game and will take home a jar or two of the meat canned....
Nancy McWhorter - For The Record This week’s KEEPER recipe was taken from an outstanding cookbook titled “Best from the Deep South.” I purchased it at Minden’s Super Walmart. It is collection of selected recipes taken from favorite cookbooks of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama edited by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley. These ladies, Gwen and Barbara, travel the United States, finding choice cookbooks within each state that contain family recipe gems. They then compile those favorite recipes into a single book. Aliant...
Dickie Colburn - For The Record Every time I find myself even remotely encouraged by decent weather conditions that increase the odds of locating and catching fish on Sabine Lake we are immediately swamped with a month’s worth of rain in a single day.The deluge that parked over southeast Texas this past weekend, while not as bad as predicted, will at least slow down the red hot bite we enjoyed the week before. Amazingly enough, due in part to huge incoming tides generated by the storm that roared across the Gulf the week b...
St. Mary fourth graders show off the masterpieces they created from lessons with Orange Service League representatives. St. Mary Catholic School fourth graders had an art lesson given by the Orange Service League representatives. Students heard a lesson on Georgia O’Keeffe who is a famous artist by the service league. Following the lesson, students created their own art work based on the lesson taught....
The West Orange – Stark Elementary first grade class celebrated the 50th day of school Monday, Nov. 2, by dressing in 1950’s fashion. First grade students are C.J. Brown, Sanaa Jones, Dak Sims, Allison Gutierrez, Alan Lopez, Ma’Laya Thomas, Ja’Cuincy Walker, Madison Porterfield, Jamarien Miller, Jocelynne Martinez, K’den Graves and London Stone. The day ended with a “Sock Hop....
Barbara Ann Ackerman Nixon, 81, of Bridge City, passed away peacefully Sunday, Nov. 1, at home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Oct. 12, 1934, in Henryetta, Ok, to Gladys Burr Ackerman and James Hamilton Ackerman. Barbara graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, class of 1953. She was a career loan officer for more than 35 years, where she made many friends and helped several people. She started her banking career at Merchants National Bank in Port Arthur...
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles is expecting the moderate to major flooding in southeast Texas to slowly improve this week. We are monitoring additional rainfall forecast for Friday and Saturday. As of today, we are expecting less rain than what we saw last week....
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Neches Federal Credit Union’s new Bridge City Branch. The new 3,380 square-foot building, located at 410 Texas Ave., features the latest financial products and services available along with safe deposit boxes, three-lane drive thru, and ATM. The Bridge City location lobby hours are Monday-Thursday 9 am to 5 pm, Friday 9 am to 6 pm and drive-thru hours are Monday-Thursday 7 am to 5 p...
Meri Elen Jacobs - For The Record Claiming the district title Friday night with a 48-0 win over Hardin Jefferson was not the only thing that the Mustangs did in their last regular game of the season. They also established the top spot in offense and the top spot in defense for district play. The Chain Gang only allowed 3 pts in the four district games-a Matthew Rainey field goal in the Orangefield win. The WO-S secondary also didn’t allow a single pass completion during the district run. “I thought we played really well for...
Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunter Education Safety class will be held Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 16-17 from 6:30-9:30 pm in Orangefield. Must attend both sessions. Certification is required if you are at least 17 years old and were born on or after Sept. 2, 1971 to hunt in Texas. You can be certified at 9 years old. Call Danny Odom at 409-883-8118 to register, or for information. This class is not just for hunters - anyone with firearms can benefit from this class....
St. Mary Catholic School recently had two special visitors - Father Jim Sichko, an alumni of St. Mary Catholic School and his dog, Gracie Marie Charlsey. Father Sichko is currently in Kentucky at St. Mark Catholic School where Gracie attends daily. She is the school mascot. Gracie is a Red Blood Hound and is training for search and rescue. Last week, Gracie rescued two lost girls in the woods that had been missing for three days and it only took Gracie six hours to find them....
The second annual Special Angels Rodeo is scheduled for 10 am, Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Orange County Sheriff's Posse Arena. There will be adaptive rodeo events, including barrel racing, bull riding, saddle bronc riding and roping. Additional carnival games have been added to this year's event as well as a petting zoo with certified safe animals. This will be a safe and secure environment with law enforcement, fire and medical personnel on site. The event is free to spectators. Volunteer and sponsorship opportunities are...
Each week The Record Newspapers features a pet, or pets of the week for adoption through local shelters and rescue organizations. This week’s pets are rescues from Pups in Peril. Trixie and Dixie are 5-6 month old, lab mixes. They are both very playful and affectionate. These girls were found under a trash can when they were only about 6 weeks old. They are still looking for a home to call their own. Darby, is a 4-5 year old mix breed. He is housebroken and good with other d...
Trooper Richard Howard with the Texas Department of Public Safety and I.D. Tech Officer Thorton with the Orange Police Department are among the law enforcement officials reconstructing the crash scene of the fatal hit and run accident that killed Ava Lewis and her daughter Lamya Newhouse. RECORD PHOTO - MARK DUNN Monday, Nov. 2, at approximately 8:00 pm, the Orange Police Department received a call of an automobile-pedestrian accident in the 2100 block of MacArthur Dr. Ava...
ONE STEP FORWARD--TWO STEPS BACK This week’s column will be a little light. Creaux has been under the weather and I’ve been out of pocket. I was running on just two cylinders but Dr. Chris Penning and Kelly have me motoring on four, with promises of getting up to full speed by next week. I’ve watched little politics. I did watch some of the Republican debate on CNBC. It looked like the amature hour. Half of the candidates were complaining about the questions being asked. What they want to do in all debates is be able to us...
Orange County Health Inspector James Scales made the following inspections on area businesses from Oct. 16-31: North Early Learning Center, 801 Cordrey St., Orange - Score - 100 Little Cypress High School, 7565 N. Hwy. 87, Orange - Score - 100 Vidor Elementary School, 400 E. Railroad, Vidor - Score - 100 Vidor Jr. High School, 945 N. Tram Rd., Vidor - Score - 100 Hamburger Depot, 2395 Texas Ave., Bridge City - Pre-opening inspection, no score. King's Gumbo, 2822 Western Ave. #2, Orange - Pre-opening inspection, no score....
David Ball - For The Record The people have spoken on the 2015 Texas Constitutional Amendments Election held on November 3. The amendments were as follows: Proposition 1 – SJR 1 “The constitutional amendment increasing the amount of the residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation for public school purposes from $15,000 to $25,000, providing for a reduction of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for those purposes on the homestead of an elderly or disabled person to ref...
Susan Tallant, an artist from Bridge City, holds her painting of Denmark Vesey. The painting hangs in BCISD operation's manager, John Scales, office in the transportation department. She also painted a mural inside of the office. RECORD PHOTO: David Ball David Ball - For The Record Denmark Vesey was born as a slave in 1767 in St. Thomas and died a free man in 1822 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a skilled carpenter and he bought his freedom from slavery. He was a free...
The Bridge City City Council proclaimed the week as Municipal Court Week at their regular meeting Tuesday night. Municipal court personnel, from left are: Sherry Tisdale, city secretary/court administrator; Terry Smith, deputy court clerk; Judge Joy Dubose-Simonton; Judge Ida Schossow; Judge James B. Scales III; Mitzi Nolan, deputy court clerk; and Paul M. Fukuda, city prosecutor. RECORD PHOTO: David Ball David Ball - For The Record One resident addressed the Bridge City City...
Mary Palermo, a Country & Western singer-songwriter from Bridge City, has written some songs that have topped several charts for multiple weeks. Jennifer Clarke - For The Record She has always enjoyed a good story. Mary Palermo, local singer and songwriter, said she used to “make up stories,” and she especially enjoyed “funny stories,” that she would tell to her children. There was a real evolutionary process to her development as a songwriter, and her success is due, in part...
Kaiden Aven, age 8, of Orange County, was issued a resolution at Tuesday's commissioners court for giving his own dog to a man from Jasper who had suffered a stroke and had lost his dog. Although Kaiden did not know the man from Jasper, he felt bad the man lost his dog and wanted to give him his dog. Pictured with Kaiden is Lanie Brown with US Rep. Brian Babin's office. RECORD PHOTO: David Ball David Ball - For The Record Questions about the fiscal year budget are still being...
